who are you in your mind?

eMMI
eMMI Posts: 6,262
edited October 2005 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
if you can't decide
what you want to hear
how can you decide
who you want to live?

if your mind is blank
like a white paper sheet
how can you rank
who's smart and who's a wimp?

if you can't see birds fly
when you gaze at the sky
how can you ask why
of all the joy I can cry?
"Don't be faint-hearted, I have a solution! We shall go and commandeer some small craft, then drift at leisure until we happen upon another ideal place for our waterside supper with riparian entertainments."
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  • eMMI
    eMMI Posts: 6,262
    I think that title could be better..
    maybe I should sometime write another poem with that one.. :)
    "Don't be faint-hearted, I have a solution! We shall go and commandeer some small craft, then drift at leisure until we happen upon another ideal place for our waterside supper with riparian entertainments."
  • decides2dream
    decides2dream Posts: 14,977
    if you can't decide
    what you want to hear
    how can you decide
    who you want to live?




    damn...i like that.
    i also wish i knew. :o
    Stay with me...
    Let's just breathe...


    I am myself like you somehow


  • eMMI
    eMMI Posts: 6,262
    decides2dream wrote:
    if you can't decide
    what you want to hear
    how can you decide
    who you want to live?




    damn...i like that.
    i also wish i knew. :o

    thank you super much! :)
    "Don't be faint-hearted, I have a solution! We shall go and commandeer some small craft, then drift at leisure until we happen upon another ideal place for our waterside supper with riparian entertainments."
  • pearlmutt
    pearlmutt Posts: 392
    this reminds me of a nikki giovanni poem entitled "cotton candy on a rainy day"

    i think. i'll have to look it up, but something about this poem reminds of something in one of hers, the kids are pumpkin carved out, i'm heading for the books. i'll let you know.
  • pearlmutt
    pearlmutt Posts: 392
    Choices
    By nikki giovanni

    if i can’t do
    what i want to do
    then my job is to not
    do what i don’t want
    to do

    it’s not the same thing
    but it’s the best i can
    do

    if i can’t have
    what i want then
    my job is to want
    what i’ve got
    and be satisfied
    that at least there
    is something more
    to want

    since i can’t go
    where i need
    to go then i must go
    where the signs point
    though always understanding
    parallel movement
    isn’t lateral

    when i can’t express
    what i really feel
    i practice feeling
    what i can express
    and none of it is equal
    i know
    but that’s why mankind
    alone among the mammals
    learns to cry.

    (so it's in this little volume of great poems by this great poet, nikki giovanni, and emmi, your poem reminds me of this poem, which has probably shaped my life continually more than any other advice, maybe, i'm not sure, i read it a lot, which is funny because i forgot it's title. . . oh well.)
  • eMMI
    eMMI Posts: 6,262
    that poem is really good.

    yeah, I see the resemblence too.. funny though that I've never read Giovanni's poetry. :)
    "Don't be faint-hearted, I have a solution! We shall go and commandeer some small craft, then drift at leisure until we happen upon another ideal place for our waterside supper with riparian entertainments."
  • neo
    neo Posts: 89
    i'm gumby, dammit.
  • eMMI
    eMMI Posts: 6,262
    neo wrote:
    i'm gumby, dammit.

    okay. :D
    nice to know you know who you are! :)
    "Don't be faint-hearted, I have a solution! We shall go and commandeer some small craft, then drift at leisure until we happen upon another ideal place for our waterside supper with riparian entertainments."
  • twin2
    twin2 Posts: 894
    That was interesting to read.
  • eMMI
    eMMI Posts: 6,262
    twin2 wrote:
    That was interesting to read.

    hmm. :)
    is that a good thing? :D
    "Don't be faint-hearted, I have a solution! We shall go and commandeer some small craft, then drift at leisure until we happen upon another ideal place for our waterside supper with riparian entertainments."
  • twin2
    twin2 Posts: 894
    eMMI wrote:
    hmm. :)
    is that a good thing? :D

    Yes. Of course it is. It means I like it.
  • eMMI
    eMMI Posts: 6,262
    twin2 wrote:
    Yes. Of course it is. It means I like it.

    good to know. :)
    so thank you! :D
    "Don't be faint-hearted, I have a solution! We shall go and commandeer some small craft, then drift at leisure until we happen upon another ideal place for our waterside supper with riparian entertainments."
  • pearlmutt
    pearlmutt Posts: 392
    i like something about both of them, it's hard to pinpoint, i think that's what i like.

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